The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works
Series Editors: Betty S Travitsky, City University of New York.
USA. Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, USA.
Series Editor Emeritus: Patrick Cullen
The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of
Essential Works is designed to make available a comprehensive
and focused collection of writings from 1500 to 1750, both by women
and for and about them. The three series of Printed
Writings (1500–1640, 1641–1700, and 1701–1750) provide a
comprehensive, if not entirely complete, collection of the
separately published writings by women. In reprinting these
writings it is intended to remedy one of the major obstacles to the
advancement of feminist criticism of the early modern period,
namely the unavailability of the very texts upon which the field is
based. The volumes in the facsimile library reproduce
carefully chosen copies of these texts, incorporating a short
introduction providing an overview of the life and work of a writer
along with a survey of important scholarship.
The Early Modern Englishwoman also includes separate
facsimile series of Essential Works for the Study of Early
Modern Women and of Manuscript Writings. These facsimile
series are complemented by The Early Modern Englishwoman
1500–1750: Contemporary Editions which includes both
old-spelling and modernized editions of works by and about women
and gender in early modern England.
Series advisory board:
Margaret J. M. Ezell, Texas A&M University, USA
Elaine Hobby, Loughborough University, UK
Suzanne W. Hull, The Huntingdon Library, USA
Barbara K. Lewalski, Harvard University, USA
Stephen Orgel, Stanford University, USA
Ellen Rosand, Yale University, USA
Mary Beth Rose, University of Ilinois, Chicago, USA
Hilda L. Smith, University of Cincinnati, USA
Retha M. Warnicke, Arizona State University, USA
Georgianna Ziegler, The Folger Shakespeare Library, USA